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GPSS OKs new budget for fiscal year 2016

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By Matthew.Rezab @iowastatedaily.com The Graduate and Professional Student Senate overwhelmingly passed the proposed $165,600 budget for fiscal year 2016.

The new budget represents a $14,100 increase from fiscal year 2015. The extra funds are expected to be available because of the continually rising enrollment. GPSS is largely funded by student fees.

The budget allocations run from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. With a projected income of $171,00, the budget proposal does leave officers and the senate some breathing room if unexpected expenses arise.

An extra $3,000 each semester was made available for the Professional Advancement Grant program, along with an extra $4,000 being set aside to fund a proposed graduate student career fair. The budget to fund guest speakers and lecturers was also raised from $1,500 to $2,000 for the year.

“With greater student fee reciepts, we can fund more Professional Advancement Grants, better social events and new line items,” said GPSS Treasurer T.J. Ratikan.

Government of the Student Body presidential hopefuls Dan Breitbarth and Amanda Lewis had an opportunity to briefly lay out their platforms to the GPSS senators. VEISHEA and overcrowding on campus was a hot topic for each candidate. Both advocate bringing some form of VEISHEA back to Iowa State. Breitbarth advocated for a parade, while Lewis suggested moving the event to the fall semester before students are done with Spring Break and midterms and “ready to let loose.”

“We want to bring back the traditions in a new way,” Lewis said.

Students can vote March 3 and 4, by going to the ISU website.

Clubs and organizations looking to procure funds from GPSS’s regular allocation fund can now receive up to $1,000. If they already received the $800 limit this year, the club is eligible for $200 during the spring semester.

“Overall, we want to promote clubs to generate opportunity for them that wouldn’t otherwise be

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ISU Research Park continues to expand in unfamiliar territory

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ituated just south of U.S. Highway 30 in Ames sits a cluster of buildings where companies perform cutting-edge research, but the park is relatively unknown to students.

The ISU Research Park, which was founded in 1987, is a private, non-for-profit, endeavor affiliated with Iowa State.

The park is home to companies such as Vermeer, NewLink Genetics, and Workiva, which was formerly known as WebFilings.

“The biggest requirement is a relationship with Iowa State,” said Alison Doyle, marketing manager for the ISU Research Park in reference to companies looking to house their operations within the park.

All the companies housed at the research park are in one way or another working with Iowa State, Doyle said. This could mean they are hiring students as part-time staff, pulling interns from ISU’s student base or working with different departments on campus.

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The ISU Research Park is located just south of U.S. Highway 30 in Ames. The research park is home to multiple different companies, such as Vermeer, NewLink Genetics and Workiva, which was previously known as WebFilings.

search Park currently has 1,365 employees Doyle said, however, that number is projected to grow.

“We expect that in 10 years the employment base will expand to 6,000,” said Dr. Michael Crum, vice president for Economic Development and Business Engagement and chairman of the ISU Research Park Corporation.

Due to the expected increase in employment, the park is currently in an expansion phase.

Doyle said the park is adding 200 acres of development to its already sizable 200-acre swath of developed land. The park houses about 60 tenants in nine buildings, seven of which are owned by the research park, while the other two are owned by private businesses.

Of the 60 tenants, one of the more widely known is Workiva, which recently underwent a name change, formerly operating under the name WebFilings.

Workiva is well known for Wdesk,

a platform operating in the cloud that allows companies and other enterprises to manage and analyze business data in real time.

“Workiva is a workplace of the future,” Doyle said, noting that the company houses an inhouse chef, as well as a gymnasium for employees.

Of Workiva employees, about 50 per year are ISU student interns, according to a Workiva spokesperson.

“Many of these interns go on to become full-time Workiva employees,” the spokesperson said.

Andrew Herrick was one such intern.

“In the fall of 2009 I was taking an accounting information systems class at Iowa State ... and Workiva was looking for interns,” Herrick said.

Herrick responded and was working as an intern for Workiva within a month.

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ISU leaders share state-affecting Students differentiate projects to lawmakers at Capitol between terrorism, Islam

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By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com Administrators and leaders at Iowa State had the chance to speak to lawmakers at ISU Day at the Capitol on Monday about issues regarding the university and its progress.

ISU Day at the Capitol is an annual event coordinated by the Iowa State University President’s Office.

The focus of the day is to show lawmakers and lobbyists about how projects the university works on affects the state of Iowa.

Among the attendees were Government of the Student Body President Hillary Kletscher and Vice President Mike Hoefer. The Government of the Student Body has a booth at the event each year.

Kletscher said her role as president of the GSB is to act as a representative for all students, talking to lawmakers about the issues that students face as they attend one of Iowa’s regent universities. Kletscher also said the event is a great way to tell lawmakers about the student expe-

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ISU President Steven Leath and Government of the Student Body President Hillary Kletscher met with Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad at the Iowa State Capitol on Feb. 23.

rience at Iowa State and how the GSB has worked to enhance that experience.

“Also it’s a great opportunity for us to show hands-on how Iowa State can enhance life in the state of Iowa,” Kletscher said.

ISU attendees also focus on how the university may benefit the state as a whole. The Office of Admissions shows how many students attend Iowa State from each county, how many students stay in the state after graduating and how much progress is made in fields such as agriculture that

play a large role in the state’s economy.

Kletscher said students need to realize the role Iowa lawmakers play in their education.

“I think one of the most important things for students to know is what they’re learning every day and experiencing every day at Iowa State is funded and supported by the state of Iowa,” Kletscher said. “The state of Iowa wants Iowa State to be a key player in the economic development of Iowa and the development of educated minds.”

For some ISU students, ISIS isn’t just an acronym.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Islamist militant group that seized a chunk of land stretching from northern Syria to central Iraq commonly referred to as ISIS, has become a household name. Some students at Iowa State are concerned with political rhetoric on the MiddleEastern terrorist group.

For the past couple of months, ISIS has made news headlines, and their actions, which include the beheadings of foreign journalists, beheadings of Christians and recently, a video of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters paraded down Iraqi streets in cages, though the video’s authenticity has not been confirmed, have prompted the Obama Administration to take action against the group.

The rhetoric surrounding the U.S. conflict against ISIS has been calculated and carefully worded.

President Obama has refused to call the conflict a war on radical Islam.

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“They are not religious leaders, they’re terrorists,” Obama said at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, per NBCnews. com. Obama went on to explain how the U.S. is not “at war with Islam, we are at war with people who have perverted Islam.”

The president has been criticized for his responses concerning ISIS. In response, Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has criticized Obama for not referring to ISIS as Islamic terrorists, according to foxnews.com.

“The terror of radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives” are the problems concerning ISIS, Jindal said, who used the word “Islam” when describing the threat of ISIS. At a Chapel Hill shooting tribute event on Friday, about 40 students, many of Islamic faith, gathered south of the Campanile.

When these students were asked about Obama’s words on ISIS and the U.S. policy concerning the group, several students had responses.

“What I believe is that it’s not a war on Islam,” said Zaynab

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Necessity of mental toughness Mental toughness is a big part of any athlete’s game but does it hold a special, more important place in the sports of gymnastics?

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Police Blotter The information in the log comes from the ISU and City of Ames police departments’ records.

Feb. 20 Amos Kotz, 19, of 5254 Willow Hall, Ames, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance. Kendall Stowe, 18, of 2205 Willow Hall, Ames, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia at Willow Hall (reported at 11:10 p.m.).

Feb. 21 Tanner Hagge, 19, of 405 Bergen Street, Vail, was arrested and charged with public intoxication and underage possession of alcohol. at Little Street and Welch Avenue (reported at 12:32 a.m.).

The following were cited for underage possession of alcohol: Noah Klein, 19, of 5202 Willow Hall, Ames; Lauren Weinert, 18, of 628 Maple Hall, Ames; and Cinthia Wilkinson, 18, of 2119 Elm Hall, Ames a t H a y w a rd Ave n u e a n d Mortensen Road (reported at 12:50 a.m.).

Azzam Alnasser, 23, of 111 Lynn Avenue, Apar tment 605, Ames, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated (second offense) at Lincoln Way and University Boulevard (reported at 2:36 a.m.).

Nathan Konz, 23, of 1305 Coconino Road, Unit 201, Ames, was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated at Coconino Road and Mortensen Road (reported at 3:07 a.m.).

Katherine Karkow, 19, of 530 Welch Avenue, Ames, was cited for underage possession of alcohol at Pearson Hall (reported at 10:53 p.m.).

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Zachary Thiessen, 23, of 1446 Prairie Drive, Story City, was arrested and charged with public intoxication (second offense). He was additionally taken into custody on a warrant held by the Boone County Sheriff’s Office at Knapp Street and Sheldon Avenue (reported at 2:07 a.m.).

Officers assisted a resident who was experiencing medical difficulties. The individual was transported to a medical facility for treatment at Larch Hall (reported at 1:53 a.m.).

Karl Moseley, 19, of 7338 Larch Hall, Ames, was arrested and charged with public intoxication at 1100 block of Duff Avenue (reported at 6:13 a.m.).

Raymond Saulsbury, 24, of 215 East 7th Street – Ames, was cited for driving under suspension at 11th Street and Grand Avenue (reported at 6:30 a.m.).

An individual reported damage to a van at Transportation Services (reported at 2:49 p.m.).

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This slow cooker quinoa chicken chili puts a twist on your ordinary chili dish.

One of the main ingredients, quinoa, is high in protein, so it pairs great with the chicken to give heft and substance.

This recipe takes little work, and is a wonderful winter recipe to stay warm in these cold months, so it is worth the effort.

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The Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship Innovation Pitch Competition gives students the opportunity to pitch a business idea in 90 seconds to a panel of judges.

By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com The Ames Police Department will be more closely monitoring the traffic passing through Lincoln Way and Duff Avenue beginning Tuesday.

The ISU Police Department will also be stepping up its traffic enforcement during that time.

The deadline to apply is March 4 and up to 35 spots are available. The event is 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 10 at the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House - 117 Ash Avenue.

To apply for the competition, visit http://www. isupjcenter.org/.

Winning categories and award amounts are: • Best overall pitch $500 • Best new business idea

Officers will be on the lookout for drivers who are operating under the influence or alcohol or other substances and drivers who are exceeding the speed limit.

The police officers will also be paying closer attention to drivers and passengers who are not wearing their seat belts.

To enforce the seat belt laws, police will be look-

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Drivers who are not wearing their seat belts correctly can also receive a ticket.

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Solar-powered robots open new pathways for workforce, safety

By Evan.Howe @iowastatedaily.com This day in age, energy consumption is constantly increasing and so is the desire for more efficient technology to assist with environmental issues, agriculture or surveillance and even help people in their daily lives.

An assistant professor of aerospace engineering, Ran Dai, who has previous experience working on power systems on the Boeing 787 at the University of Washington, along with her team, is working on a project that has the potential of meeting both of these increasing demands — a solar-powered robotic system. Adam Kaplan, graduate in aerospace engineering, Nathan Kingry and Kishan Patel, both seniors in aerospace engineering are members of Dai’s team.

When some think of solar-powered robots, the image of the Mars rover rolling around the surface of a foreign world tak -

ing pictures and gathering samples may come to mind. However, the ISU team is working on a more close-to-home way for solar-powered robots to help humanity.

Work must be done in order to make our society function. Work that Kaplan said can be, “dull, dirty, and dangerous.”

When a particular job requires people to do the same routine again and again, day in and day out — dull — complacency may follow. Studies have been done that illustrate the dangers of complacency both to the worker’s safety and job performance.

Instead of having to send people into an area that is highly radioactive —dirty — or disarm a bomb in the middle of a war zone — dangerous — people will someday be able to use this type of technology to keep more human workers away from these dangerous scenarios.

For some, working in an area that is filled with highly-toxic radiation or

bullets flying through the air is not likely to happen.

However, the technology being developed at Iowa State will, in theory, be able to be modified to every user’s specific needs.

“The components will be very general so the robot can be adapted to his/her specific needs,” Dai said.

In an ideal situation, every day would be a sunny day to make these solarpowered robots happily function at their best. The reality however is not quite so bright, and this is a challenge the team is working on.

To counter this problem, the robot is designed to seek out areas that are more dense in solar radiation than in others via GPS navigation and infrared mapping. If the weather is cloudy, the robot is able to go into a sleep mode to conserve energy. “[This challenge] has been like juggling on a unicycle,” Kaplan said.

However, during the span of a single semester, the team has seen great im-

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The intentions of solar-powered robots include performing “dull, dirty and dangerous tasks.” These tasks include working in areas filled with toxic radiation and in the middle of war zones.

provement in the accuracy of the robot’s ability to find these energy sources.

One might simply suggest the best way to operate these machines is to use a different energy source, but Dai said solar power is best suited for long-term operations.

“These vehicles would not be constrained by the size of a battery,” Dai said.

Applying this type of energy source to unmanned aerial vehicles is another goal of the team.

With it, unmanned aerial vehicles could assist in farming operations such as crop dusting, and they could also assist in search and rescue operations.

The team has already produced two prototypes that will help pave the way for what the team believes to be a revolution in time-

Help Van provides safe transportation for students, staff

By Dakota.Carpenter @iowastatedaily.com After a long night of studying, you may find yourself leaving one of the most common campus buildings that the safety escort service visits, such as Parks Library or the College of Design.

If students, faculty or staff ever feel unsafe or apprehensive about walking to a university-owned property or somewhere in greek land, the safety escort service is just a call away.The safety escort service is handicap accessible and will pick up and drop off students, faculty and staff at any university owned property without charge.

The Safety Escort Service has the right to refuse escorts to people who behave improperly, are abusive to escort personnel or abuse the service, according to the safety escort website.

The service is operated by 17 students known as community service officers. Community service offer students are responsible for operating the safety escort service,

locking and unlocking campus buildings and patrolling campus among other things.

Dylan Bouge, senior in sociology, is the program’s student coordinator, and he is responsible for hiring the community service officers, scheduling their shifts and relaying information to the program’s liaison officer, ISU Police Lt. Deborah Larkin.

“It’s a self-sustaining student-run program for the most part,” Larkin said.

“It’s organized by students [and] it’s scheduled by students.”

Alex Niebuhr, senior in environmental science, is one of those community service officers. Niebuhr has been involved with the program for the past year and now holds a lead officer position. As a lead community service officer, Niebuhr is responsible for overseeing safety escort shifts and assisting with safety escorts if the help van gets overloaded with calls.

“Each shift is going to be completely different,” Niebuhr said. “Some nights are going to be really busy and some nights you might only get one

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Adam Kaplan, Kishan Patel, and Nathan Kingry, worked together to create a solar-powered robot using technology borrowed from the ag college.

dependent operations.

Dai said she hopes the general public will start seeing more of this type of technology within two years.

Though much more work needs to be done, Kaplan said the team has

been able to conquer some amazing obstacles together, and will continue to do so.

“It’s not every day that you get to spend time with such a great team on something that has such great implication,” Kaplan said.

City Council to discuss resident survey, new water treatment plant

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The Help Van will safely escort students, faculty and visitors to and from any university-owned property or anywhere in Greek Land. The hours run from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day that classes are in session.

call.”

Iowa State has offered this service for about 17 years and last year the safety escort service received more than 6,000 calls. Bouge said the number of escorts provided on a particular shift vary.

“I had 35 safety escorts last night [during a] shift that ran from 5:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.,” Bouge said. “With the weather being cold, it’s not uncommon [to give that many safety escorts].”

Students, faculty and staff have access to a safety escort from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day when classes are in session. When students call to request a safety escort, they may be connected to ISU Police’s dispatch service, or put on hold for a brief period of time.

“If the dispatcher puts you on hold it’s because they are dealing with a more emergent issue,” Larkin said. “When you’re put on hold, they will get to you as soon as they possibly can.”

The University of

Iowa offers a similar service called Nite Ride. Nite Ride is a bus that is driven by a university security officer, and follows two set routes, according to the the university’s public safety website.

Nite Ride only picks up women and will only pick them up from certain locations, according to the website.

Alton Poole, crime prevention specialist with the University of Iowa Police Department, said Nite Ride was made and established and made gender-specific during a time when downtown Iowa City was facing problems with sexual assaults.

Iowa State’s Help Van is available to all students, faculty and staff and provides a safe alternative to reach a destination.

Students are encouraged to use this service at any time they do not feel comfortable walking or taking the bus to a university-owned establishment.

The number for the safety escort is 294-4444.

The Ames City Council will reconvene at 7 p.m.

Tuesday in the City Council Chambers. Among a plethora of resolutions and hearings, the council will discuss the 2015 Resident Satisfaction Survey.

The survey is an annual ballot given out to Ames residents, with the help of the Iowa State University Institute for Design Research and Outreach, to help gauge where the public is standing on certain issues.

In a press release from Susan Gwiasda, the public relations officer for the city of Ames, survey questions have included “Campustown, Campustown parking ramp ... support of city-sponsored wi-fi,” and “support to offer fare-free CyRide to all riders.”

Other city issues such as flood plain development, city entryways and aquatic centers have been on the survey.

This year, representatives from the ISU Research Park have asked to put some of their own questions on the survey. In the press release, it said “topics suggested are fairly specific

and may not be applicable to the vast majority of survey recipients.”

Consultants at Iowa State University will come up with the final questions on the survey. The council will be discussing input on the issues and policies “where public feedback would be helpful to you.”

Numerous water and electrical services hearings will also be on the agenda for the council. The city received bids from five different engineering companies, which would like to take on the project.

S.M. Hentges & Sons Inc. of Jordan, Minn., was the lowest bidder at $3,197,273.15. The authorized budget for the new water treatment plant is $5,530,000. The council will decide whether they accept the report of all five bids, accept the bid from S.M. Hentges & Sons Inc. or award the contract to another company at Tuesday night’s meeting.

Steve Schainker, city manager of Ames, is recommending the council holds off on accepting a bid while his office does background checks on all the companies. Schainker is recommending the council only accepts the report with all five bids.

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Females comprise 31 percent of undergraduate students majoring in agronomy. Although that is the highest percentage Iowa State has seen, there’s long way to go to gain equality in the industry. The Women in Agronomy group hopes to help pave the way for female agronomists.

Women in Agronomy promotes increase in female involvement

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The underrepresentation of women in agriculture has manifested itself in Iowa State’s agronomy department.

Only 31 percent of undergraduate students majoring in agronomy are women.

The Women in Agronomy group is attempting to close the gap for female students.

Jennifer Jensen, senior in environmental science and a part of Women in Agronomy, said that there is a highly noticeable gender gap in her classes.

However, the department is seeing an increase in the number of women it is recruiting. This could be due to the “I’m an Agronomist” marketing campaign.

The slogan known around the nation and other universities even contact Iowa State to ask about it, said Stephanie Zumbach, undergraduate coordinator for the Department of Agronomy.

Zumbach works with events and campus visits for prospective students.

She is also the adviser for the Women in Agronomy group.

The marketing strategy is designed to help students and prospective students see themselves in agrono-

Agronomy has seen an increase in the amount women staying agronomy.

The 31 percent of female undergraduate students majoring in agronomy is the most the department has ever had, Zumbach said.

The group holds a variety of events that mostly consist of speakers and field trips. The speakers are female ISU agronomy alumni who are successful in the agronomy field.

“It shows how women have used their agronomy majors because there are so many opportunities in the agronomy field,” Jensen said.

The field trips offer insight into these different parts of the agronomy field.

For example, the club has been to farms, research facilities and even got to tour the World Food Prize building, Zumbach said.

There are a wide variety of career options available with an agronomy degree and the field trips help the members of Women in Agronomy see them in action.

“Having the different women in different professions in agronomy really shows what kind of different jobs there are,” said Taylor O’Bryan, senior in agronomy.

The group acts as a sneak peak of what it is like in the real world for

women in the agriculture industry. The participants of Women in Agronomy are able to see the different ways they could become successful with their agronomy degree, despite the gender gap that exists in agriculture.

“I think it’s really great that we have the department support and we realize this is an issue that we have,” Zumbach said.

According to the USDA Ag Census, women made up only 13.7 percent of principal farmers in 2012.

Women do play a more active role in secondary farming, which usually means that they are involved in the decision making because they are the spouse of the principal farmer.

Farming is just one aspect of agronomic careers, but it demonstrates how women are outnumbered in the industry as a whole.

“I do tell gals that sometimes you have to prove yourself, but after you show that you know what you’re talking about then there is a more equal balance,” Zumbach said.

As more women enter Iowa State’s agronomy program and eventually the agriculture industry, this issue may dissolve.

Until then, the Department of Agronomy will work to recruit and retain female students to balance the industry.

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“I’m an Agronomist” uses a wide variety of students who are actively involved in student life and who will represent the department well. Zumbach said they try hard to include an equal number of female students to male students.

Making sure there are enough women represented in “I’m an Agronomist” is a key point in recruiting new female students.

The prospective students can see that Iowa State’s agronomy major contains different types of students.

Along with displaying the female students, demonstrating they are successful is also a major strategy in this marketing campaign. The students who are featured in it share their stories on imanagronomist.net. Through the website, prospective students can get to know what an agronomy student’s life is like and put themselves in their shoes.

The efforts to reduce the gender gap in the major do not stop at recruitment of women. They also take pains to retain the female agronomy students. A large part of the effort includes Women in Agronomy.

“It’s not just getting them here, you have to retain them as well,” Zumbach said.

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IOWA STATE DAILY

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Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015

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Lawmakers are looking at allowing guns on campuses to stop sexual assault. However, guns can increase the danger and are not the answer.

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Columnist Rogers believes there shouldn’t be censorship in history classes taught in the U.S. and that if there are no limitations, students will learn that America is a good nation. The Oklahoma legislature approved a bill to stop funding Advanced Placement U.S. history courses on the belief that they have too much left-wing influence.

The new American history Classes about the country’s past contain too much censorship

By Clay.Rogers @iowastatedaily.com

I

n his book titled “1984,” George Orwell wrote, “‘who controls the past,’ ran the party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” Oklahomans are attempting to stop the revisionist left from fiddling with the history books.

The Oklahoma legislature has approved a bill to stop funding Advanced Placement U.S. history classes on the basis that the curriculum is too left-wing.

There are two camps in this debate. There are those of us who believe that America is fundamentally good, and that good reality should be passed on to our children. Then there are those who believe America is fundamentally bad, or even worse, “neutral.” Those people also wish to pass their belief on to our children.

The primary complaint against the AP curriculum is that it focuses solely on the bad and unimportant, while purposefully excluding the good and important.

I’m against censorship in any form. I firmly believe that if history is taught in its entirety, every rational human will see that America is a good nation of good people. What the revisionists want is not a teaching of history in its entirety, but a teaching of selective history

meant to enforce a specific worldview. Of course not every detail can be taught in grade school classes, so the question becomes, “what’s most important?”

The new classes and textbooks seem to emulate well-known Marxist Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” The socialist worker’s version of history always follows the same template. There are the “oppressors” and then there are the “oppressed.” The great moments in history arise when the “oppressed” come into conflict with the “oppressors.” To the lefties, America is one such “oppressor.”

It’s true that there were many bad things about the past, but there were also many good things. I’d hate to drag everyone back to reality, but there are many bad things about the present. In recent times, we’ve only succeeded in swapping one bad thing for another and extinguishing the good things all together.

There’s nothing wrong with teaching about American atrocities, but a fair account should be given. What modern textbook teaches children about the atrocity of the American welfare state? Which textbook teaches children about the bankrupting of our nation and the millions of lives that have been ruined due to social welfare programs?

For proof, see the documentary “Being Innu.” The documentary tells the story of Native Americans in Canada who are totally provided for by the state, but who also suffer the highest suicide rate in the world.

This is not a recent change to our history curriculum. The anti-American emphasis has been around for at least 40 years. Public schools have become left-wing daycare centers of the state. And it’s not just history that gets drenched in the leftist worldview, it’s every field of study.

I have before me an anthropology textbook written

by Professor Kenneth J. Guest entitled “Cultural Anthropology A Toolkit For A Global Age.” I bring up this example to show how rampant leftism is in our allegedly unbiased textbooks.

On the 342nd page, Guest relates to us the work of Patty Kelly, a cultural anthropologist who did fieldwork in a Mexican brothel called Zona Galactica.

Guest writes, “At the Zona Galactica, Kelly found that some women were satisfied with their jobs. They could set their own hours, decide their own rates and choose what services they would provide.” Sweet, sweet freedom.

Guest continues, “Overall, Kelly found that these women held more open-minded and practical attitudes about sexuality than even their middle-

class Mexican female counter parts.” Well, a prostitute would be more open-minded about sex, wouldn’t they? Excuse my rudeness, I meant to write “sex worker,” not “prostitute.” Autocorrect.

The textbook reaches the epitome of dark comedy when Guest tells us, “... Kelly built a particularly strong relationship with Lydia ...” The next paragraph reveals, “Sadly, Lydia died of HIV/AIDS shortly after Kelly’s fieldwork stay ...” Oh, but it gets worse. After Lydia’s death, her fellow prostitutes pool their money to buy her a coffin. Guest assures us, “… it is these moments of community and solidarity that exemplify the lives of sex workers in the Zona Galactica.”

Guest ends by praising those who advocate decriminalization of prostitution in the U.S. Call me conservative, but maybe sex work isn’t so great.

Guest’s textbook is just one example of many. There’s a severe left-wing bias in academia and it bleeds into almost every textbook I’ve ever read.

The left will ultimately win and their “facts” will be taught.

Children will learn about the sexual inequality of colonial America, and in so doing they’ll be ready to shed the yoke of the capitalist oppressor. Although, as I write this I hear a noise that brings a smile to my face.

It’s the sound of our ancestors howling with laughter.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Veterans deserve more respect

By Bob Krause, ISU graduate student Iowa is not sensitive to the needs of veterans injured by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or Military Sexual Trauma (MST). An obscure section of the Code of Iowa mandates that veterans with these afflictions be “kicked to the curb.”

In fact, this law obligates the Commandant of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown to keep these veterans out: “A person shall not be received or retained by the [Iowa Veterans Home] who has been diagnosed by a qualified mental health professional as acutely mentally ill and is considered dangerous to self or others, is an acute inebriate, or is addicted to drugs, and whose documented behavior is continuously disruptive to the operation of the facility.”

This law, and also federal funding guidelines, remove severe PTSD, TBI and MST sufferers from the Iowa Veterans Home. Those removed and denied are precisely those that need long-term specialized

psychiatric care. Instead, if they are lucky, they get drugs, which most resist because the drugs tend to be emotionally deadening.

The transition to drugs as therapy is driven by a dramatic downturn of psychiatric beds for veterans. The Knoxville Veterans Affairs Hospital that closed in 2010 had a psych wing of 60 beds. Since Branstad closed the 20-bed psych wing at the Iowa Veterans Home, only 10 dedicated psychiatric beds remain in Des Moines to serve the entire state population of veterans.

Even when veterans can be farmed out to private facilities for treatment, it’s difficult to find beds, and nearly impossible to find long-term care beds. A state the size of Iowa should have at least 1500 psychiatric beds for its needs.

That number is now 750 and shrinking. Those 750 bed serve a severely mentally ill population of 180,000. Because most PTSD, TBI and MST maladies are specific to military service, finding a psychiatric specialist and long-term residential psychiatric care is nearly impossible.

There are sad stories that

come from this. The 2013 Iowa Senate hearings revealed that 42 veterans were evicted from the Iowa Veterans Home that were generally PTSD, TBI and Military Sexual Trauma sufferers. These were veterans requiring long-term psychiatric care and life supervision due to their injuries. The change was supposedly because of a change in federal law that reduced funding for the category.

Historically, Iowa handled this by attrition. New patients are not admitted, and those caught in change are allowed to stay. But in this case, all were released post-haste. Within two weeks, two of the former residents had committed suicide. In addition, a vet with MST placed on suicide watch by the chief psychologist and recommended to stay in the psychiatric wing was released.

She also subsequently committed suicide.

All states are charged by federal law to provide longterm residential care for veterans that require it. The Iowa Veterans Home and nursing homes generally are reimbursed at 70 percent federal, 30 percent state under Title 19 if the veteran is qualified

for long-term care. But only the Iowa Veterans Home is reimbursed 100 percent if the veteran is both sufficiently disabled and also over 65. This creates a strong incentive to put older vets with a large disability at the front of the line.

Well and good. But what about the younger veteran?

To qualify for 100 percent funding of long-term care, a veteran must be awarded a 70 percent disability by the VA prior to admission. VA only recognized PTSD as an affliction in the early ‘90s, and soldiers have only received post-deployment health reassessments since about 2009.

But during and before this required assessment, the VA began awarding artificially low initial disability ratings because the application then goes to appeals and improves overall statistics.

The 70 percent disability threshold may then come only after several years of appeals.

During this appeal process, the veteran is left without the needed long-term residential psychiatric care. And the situation is worse for MST sufferers, who have been ignored for years.

Guns fail to provide answers to assaults In a recent article from The Rundown on pbs.org, lawmakers in 10 different states are making moves to start legislation to allow guns on college campuses in hopes to prevent rape. Amanda Collins, a student at the University of Nevada-Reno, shared her story of being raped in the parking garage on campus.

In her courageous story, Collins talks about if there wouldn’t have been law restricting her from carrying her firearm on campus, she felt she could have defended herself against her attacker.

In the state of Iowa, the Board of Regents decided in 2005 to allow each individual university to create its own firearm and other weapons policy. At Iowa State University, all firearms and weapons, categorized under the Firearms and Other Weapons Policy, are restricted on campus. There are a few exceptions, including ISU and Ames Police, military research or a university organization, with permission, among others.

Only in Idaho, Utah and Colorado are firearms allowed to be carried on campus. Iowa falls under a category with 19 other states that let the governing university bodies decide the firearms policies. And while the Second Amendment is as important as any other, pushing guns onto campus to fight rape with guns is not the correct approach.

In a culture where we are taught to fight violence with more violence, the last thing college students need on campus are a bunch of firearms. While not all rapes occur as the male as the assaulter and the female as the victim, men are statistically more likely to be accused and charged with rape. The argument of women carrying firearms to fight off their aggressors is invalid because the legislation being proposed would allow all persons to carry firearms on campus.

The chances of a rapist carrying a gun goes up substantially if the legislation goes through.

What needs to be done is earlier and more intensive education for men on how not to be a rapist. We need to stop breeding the violence and blame that rapes are caused by mentally ill or drunk people. We need to stop resorting to guns, weapons and violence as a precaution to an assault. We need to be investing our time, money and energy into the education of what constitutes as a sexual or aggravated assault. We need to invest into security measures like security cameras and trained police enforcement. Falling back on firearms and weapons to protect us only give those aggressors a leg up on their crimes. It’s time we stop feeding into the nonsensical idea that “the sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these predators get a bullet in their head,” as Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore stated in The Rundown’s article. It time we do something about the prevention ahead of time, rather than have a reaction with a gun.

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Senior guard/forward Fallon Ellis drives to the hoop at Hilton Coliseum on Jan. 28. Ellis has a lot to live up to as many members of her immediate and extended family have successful backgrounds in sports.

FULFILLING A FAMILY LEGACY Fallon Ellis perfects ‘reserve role’ on ISU women’s basketball team

By Chris.Wolff @iowastatedaily.com Fallon Ellis has some big shoes to fill within her own family.

Her mother, Sonya, was the 1985-86 Southwest Conference Player of the Year, and led Houston in scoring from 1983-86.

Her family’s athletic abilities do not stop there, though. Her brother played in the Indoor Football League and her grandfather played football at Iowa State and was a member of the “Dirty Thirty” team before going onto a NFL career.

Her cousin, Alisa Burras, has played with three WNBA teams. Not to be forgotten is her other cousin, Monta Ellis, a nine-year NBA veteran who is averaging 20 points per game for the Dallas Mavericks this season.

With sports running in the family’s veins, Fallon played “every sport you can think of.” Naturally, she followed in her mother’s footsteps and excelled at basketball, though she said her mom maintains the upper hand.

“I always told her that I want to be better than her and she was just like, ‘You’re never going to be better than me so give that one up,’” Ellis said with a laugh.

Living in a household of sports fanatics, Ellis was instinctively competitive.

She had two older brothers to fend off. Video games, board games, various sports — it didn’t matter. Everything was a competition.

And while there was a fair amount of trash talking and bragging rights going around throughout the household, Ellis said members of her family were her biggest supporters, as well as her biggest critics.

“My mom bragged about how good she was back in college and she coached me when I was younger, so it kind of helped guide me through,” Ellis said. “She would critique me after every game [and] my brothers would critique me after a game.”

That criticism and unwavering support pushed Ellis to pursue perfection.

She knew she had big shoes to fill. Maybe she couldn’t surpass her mother’s and

CYCLONE HOCKEY Player of the Week #18 Alex Grupe

Grupe came out skating hard on the forecheck early in Iowa State’s first-round matchup against 2015 Central States Collegiate Hockey League Tournament host Illinois and the sophomore scored the Cyclones’ lone goal in a heartbreaking 2-1 overtime loss to the Fighting Illini by driving the net and burying a loose puck in the second period for the first goal of the game.

The Cyclones return home this weekend to take on ACHA D1 newcomer Midland this Friday at 8:30 p.m. and this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. for the team’s last home series of the 2014-15 season. Join us as we salute this season’s seniors!

some of her other family member’s achievements, but she at least wanted to match them.

“I always wanted to be as good as they were,” Ellis said. “I looked up to my brothers, looked up to my mom, looked up to my dad and everybody in my family and I always wanted to be just as good as they were.”

Fast forard to Ellis’ career at Iowa State. Now a senior on the team, Ellis plays a reserve role. Typically, she plays less than 20 minutes a game. She is not the team’s leading scorer or rebounder.

In fact, Ellis averages just 4.8 points and 3.7 rebounds per game for the Cyclones this season. While her stats are not eye-popping, some of her contributions to the team have been, especially considering that ISU coach Bill Fennelly was not even sure what Ellis’ role on the team would be coming into the season.

A pair of freshmen in Claire Ricketts and Bryanna Fernstrom would get big minutes in the post and Madison Baier looked for minutes as well.

Injury issues for Baier and Ricketts opened the door for Ellis to step in and fill a gaping hole that the Cyclones had in the post.

With Fernstrom being the only other true post player to get big minutes for the Cyclones, Ellis was forced to provide the only senior leadership in the paint.

“I think for Fallon it was about … even though you’re undersized, you can do something and you’re a senior,” Fennelly said.

“I told her, ‘You’re going to win two or three games for us. Do something that’s unique to the team and hit a 3 or play a lot of minutes.’ I think she did it in the K-State game. I thought she did it the other night [against West Virginia].”

Against West Virginia, Ellis poured in all 11 of her points in the first half, keeping afloat an offense that otherwise was struggling to score. After the game, Fennelly credited Ellis as the reason why his team was still in the game at halftime.

Ellis poured in nine points and a career-high 14 rebounds against Oklahoma on Feb. 17, doing the

AN ATHLETIC LINEAGE Tom Watkins - grandfather Cleveland Browns, Deroit Lions, Pittsburg Steelers Iowa State Athletic Hall of Fame 2002 inductee

Sonya Watkins Ellis - mother University of Houston leading scorer 1983-86 Southwest Conference Player of the Year 1985-86

Alisa Burras - cousin WNBA center Cleveland Rockets, Portland Fire, Seattle Storm

Monta Ellis - cousin Guard — Dallas Mavericks 19.4 average PPG through 9 years in NBA Fallon Ellis

Sherard Ellis - brother Indoor Football League QB Colorado Ice, Amarillo Venom

Madison Martin/Iowa State Daily

Fallon Ellis comes from a long line of athletics. Her mother, Sonya, led Houston in scoring from 1983-86 and her grandfather was a former ISU football player before fulfilling a career in the NFL.

dirty work down low and playing a pivotal part in the Cyclones’ upset victory.

Ellis has played her role to perfection throughout her senior season. She won’t usually be the one leading, but when the Cyclones need something to get done, she has proven that she has the ability to accomplish whatever that task may be.

“She’s not someone that’s going to play [a lot], you know she’s going to get 14-18 minutes every single night,” Fennelly said.

“Her and Bry [Fernstrom] have kind of become the two-headed post five man and they eat up most of the minutes.”

Fernstrom has become the go-to post player in her freshman campaign, as she is averaging more than 10 points per game on the season, while Ellis has fallen back into a more reserved role.

Typically, Ellis does not score a ton of points and does not grab a ton of rebounds, though every now and then she shows she is capable of putting up big numbers when called upon.

Much of Fallon’s dirty work does not show up in a box score. Instead, she does the little things that help win games.

Those little things include setting screens, boxing out for someone else to grab the rebound or being

able to get physical with the other team’s best post player.

Her effort on the court has not gone unnoticed off the court.

“Everyone loves Fallon,” Fennelly said. “She’s a very respected kid on this team. People like her. She’s done things the right way here, carried herself the right way. You always route for the underdog mentality kind of and I think Fal has done a good job of that. “ At the end of the day, that’s exactly what Fallon wants. Nobody remembers box scores 10 years down the road. Nobody cares about statistics or who scored the most.

While Ellis still has a few more goals she hopes to accomplish, like reaching the NCAA tournament

again and making a deep run when the Big 12 tournament roles around, her legacy has already been pretty solidly cemented.

“I want [my legacy] to be not only was she a good player, but she was a really good person … not only did she come in and do what she needed to do on the court, but she did it off the court as well,” Ellis said.

She will not lead the conference in scoring or even the team in scoring, like her mother did back in her day. She probably will not play professionally, like her brother, grandfather, or cousins have.

But when it comes to following in her family’s footsteps and filling those big shoes?

She feels pretty good about that one.

MOODY AIMS FOR RECORD DURING TWO-GAME HOME STAND Nikki Moody currently sits just nine assists shy of tying Iowa State’s all-time assist record.

The senior standout has racked up 710 career assists during the past four years. Barring injury or something out of the ordinary, Moody will likely break the school record sometime this week in front of the home crowd at Hilton Coliseum.

The record is currently held by Lyndsey (Medders) Fennelly, who is the wife of current ISU coach Billy Fennelly.

Moody is averaging nearly 6.8 assists per game this season. The Cyclones will host Texas Tech at 7 p.m.

Tuesday and Baylor on Saturday.

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STYLE

Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015

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Boat House Apparel launches on campus

By Riley.Dunbar @iowastatedaily.com Mimosa mocktails, giveaways and an exclusive muscle tank set the scene for Boat House Apparel’s launch at Iowa State. Laura Bjornstad, founder, owner of the brand and alumna, and the Boat House Apparel Style Council hosted a popup shop Sunday to bring the brand to campus.

The lake-inspired apparel brand is centered around Lake Okoboji and features high-quality chic designs that capture the essence of the lake lifestyle.

Bjornstad is an alumna of Iowa State and recently moved back to the Okoboji area after working in corporate fashion.

“I wanted to bring my career and experiences back to Okoboji and with it being such a small community, I knew I had to build my own business,” Bjornstad said.

Mary Kate Knabel, junior in apparel, merchandising and design, helped bring Boat House Apparel to Iowa State. After finding the brand through social media, Knabel reached out to Bjornstad and the two came up with the idea to create a Style Council. The Style Council is made up of eight women in the apparel, merchandising and design program. The coun-

cil worked with Bjornstad to come up with the pop-up shop.

“Laura has been awesome to work with because of how open she is to our ideas,” Knabel said.

The council hopes to gain exposure for the brand through the event.

“It is a boutique price point and we want people to know about it,” said Taylor Evans, junior in apparel, merchandising and design and Style Council member.

The event kicked off at 11 a.m. with a brunch bar of mimosa mocktails, donuts and bacon. Guest were encouraged to enter to win a “Boji Babe” sweatshirt or an exclusive pair of Stella and Dot earrings. A photo booth was set up in the back of the room with props to allow guests to easily promote the event on Instagram.

The Style Council was on

hand to help guests pick out pieces at the pop-up shop.

“I think this event is really cool and a lot fun,” said Nicole Bell, sophomore in apparel, merchandising and design. “I like the boathouse style and I think it’s cool that they are incorporating it in to ISU.” The event also launched the “Like a Cyclone” exclusive muscle tank designed by the Style Council. The council is working to get the tank into local stores in Ames.

“Our motto is “always smooth sailing” so look to us for a Midwest, lake-inspired, high-quality, fashion forward clothing brand,” Bjornstad said.

For more information, visit Boat House Apparel on Instagram @boathouseapparel, Twitter @boathousestyle or Facebook: Boat House Apparel.

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The creators of Boat House Apparel hosted a pop-up shot at Creative Spirits in west Ames. At the show, the designers revealed their exclusive “Like a Cyclone” workout tank design.

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Boat House Apparel was created by ISU alumna Laura Bjornstad. Mary Kate Knabel, junior in apparel, merchandising and design helped bring the brand to Iowa State. The clothing line is inspired by Lake Okoboji.

Students volunteer at New York Fashion Week

By Erin.Dungan @iowastatedaily.com Michelle Reuss and Kaleigh Kramer, seniors in apparel, merchandising and design, were among several ISU students who had the opportunity to participate in New York Fashion Week this month. Students volunteered with BCBG Max Azria, a women’s apparel company.

Kramer first heard of this opportunity during a field study trip in New York City.

Adviser Ann Thye also presented this volunteer option to students. Thye keeps in close contact with BCBG’s human resource department.

The application process is far from intimidating.

BCBG asks that interested students send their résumé and availability to their human resource director, Christina Chiaro. Additionally, Reuss chose to include

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While helping BCBG at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Michelle Reuss helped dress models like this one while they prepped backstage. Reuss was one of 10 ‘dressers’ in attendance.

a paragraph explaining why she would be an outstanding asset to the BCBG team.

Kramer was able to participate for the entire week, while Reuss spent two days in New York.

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Each student’s experience varied. Reuss assisted with model callbacks and setting up photo shoots prior to the fashion show.

The day of the show, Reuss was assigned to ensure the makeup and hair was done correctly for the models. She also organized the models with their specific outfits.

Reuss was one of 10 ‘dressers’ who was assigned to a model and expected to get them dressed and ready to be on stage in time.

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Because of the length of time Kramer was there, her experience differed. While there, she worked closely with Kimiya Ayubi, special events manager. Together they organized the elite client event and BCBG fashion week after party.

“I also learned a ton from working with Kimiya in the short time that I was there. She took the time to explain the little things to me, which is something that

not all people do,” Kramer said.

The elite client event was a private show held in their flagship store. BCBG’s exclusive after party was held in one of New York City’s high-end hotels, The Standard. Bloggers, celebrities and elite clients attended the event.

Kramer also had the opportunity to experience chief creative director of BCBG Max Azria Group, Lubov Azria, present her resort and spring lines. Azria also discussed the inspiration behind each garment.

“My favorite part was seeing all the events come together,” Kramer said. “It’s very rewarding to be able to see people enjoying and appreciating all the hard work we put into these events.”

Reuss encouraged all who might be interested in an experience like this one to check out BCBG in the future. ”I think [BCBG] is a great opportunity for anyone who is serious about making it [to] New York or L.A. and if you want to work with BCBG this is a great in,” Reuss said.

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Workiva has offices in eight additional U.S. cities, as well as locations in Canada, the U.K. and the Netherlands. It has 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies as clients, including eBay, Best Buy and Delta Airlines.

RESEARCH p1 Once graduated, Herrick said that the decision to stay with Workiva was an easy one to make.

“I was working with the founders on many projects and saw the company vision,” Herrick said.

Workiva, which Doyle said has committed to employ more than 1,000 people within five years, is just one of many companies in a variety of different fields situated in the research park.

“We have companies in IT security, and major companies like BSAF and Siemens,” Crum said.

One of these varied companies doing groundbreaking work within the research park is Harrisvaccines, which garnered some large attention last year. A leader in animal health, Harrisvaccines produced and received

USDA conditional licensing in 2014 for a vaccine for the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, a virus that largely affected the swine population of the United States beginning in 2013, according to MarketWatch Inc. Because the research park is a non-for-profit that is not owned by the university, companies such as Harrisvaccines are allowed to retain their intellectual property rights, Doyle said. Regardless of the intellectual property rights, Doyle said many companies come to the research park because they really want access to ISU students.

“There are hundreds of jobs out here,” Doyle said.

Crum shares this sentiment.

“There are great companies out there, great places to work [and] great

places for careers,” Crum said.

Crum added that relationships, such as the one between the ISU Research Park and the university, take great leadership to come to fruition. Crum went on to credit ISU President Steven Leath with helping the park thrive in recent years.

“There’s no question that it’s President Leath’s leadership that has stimulated a lot of growth at the park,” Crum said, noting that Leath immediately had the ISU Research Park reporting directly to his office.

With the growth and the subsequent expansion project, the ISU Research Park will become home to Iowa State’s Economic Development Department.

The expansion will also be home to cafés, restaurants and childcare for park employees, Crum said.

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A new executive position whose focus would be working year-round to organize and promote the Graduate and Professional Student Research Conference made it through the first round of voting. For the position to become official, the senate must pass the bill as written again next month with a 75 percent majority, then again next August when the new senate convenes.

ISLAM p1 Diallo, member of the Humanitarian Awareness Committee and the International Student Council.

Diallo also voiced concerns about innocent people being harmed and killed in the conflict in the Middle East.

Jessica Sparr, senior in linguistics-Arabic at Iowa State, also commented on the language used concerning ISIS. “I think people have a tendency to say it is a war against Islam,” Sparr said.

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He also said he thinks the U.S. needs to clarify itself and have more “transparency” when interacting with other countries.

“We need to differentiate between terrorism and Islam,” said Sultan Alsayegh, president of the Muslim Student Association. Alsayegh said he believes the mainstream media is not always accurate in its portrayals of world events, especially in its representation of religious, radical terrorism in relation to Islam.

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The term “extremism,” when applied to ISIS, suggests that the group holds views that do not agree with non-extremist, or moderate, Muslims’ views of Islam.

On the Miriam-Webster online dictionary, “moderate” is defined as “avoiding extremes of behavior or expression, observing reasonable limits.”

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